Political, Social, and Religious Ravings from a Texas Conservative

Barbarians at the Gate

Oliver has overtaken Jack as the favorite name for new baby boys in the United Kingdom (UK) after 14 years. Isn’t that nice. Both are great names for boys and it’s about time for Oliver to get his momemet in the limelight.

This sounds like a nice fluff piece for the evening news. But here’s where it’s not so fluffy. IF… you take into account the variant spellings of Mohammed, it overtakes Oliver as the favorite name for boys in the UK. That my friends should scare the crap out of you.

Educated idiots like Dr Justin Gest, an academic at Harvard and the London School of Economics, like to put a politically correct spin on the news. He says, the name dominance is “symbolic of Britain’s diversity” and “Where we had many Johns and Jacks we also have plenty of Mohammeds now.”

I realize the Muslims name practically every kid Mohammed; and that there is enough diversity (forgive my correct use of the word) in Western names to make up for that. But this is still a sign of problems to come.

Europe (the UK included) has allowed way too much Muslim immigration, and it’s starting to affect their culture. And like a cancer; it has the potential of eventually being terminal for their Western philosophy. Muslims and Islam are prone to radicalism; constantly at odds with, the Jews, the West, even each other. They refuse to accept or accommodate other cultures; even ones to which they immigrate.

The popularity of the name Mohammed (in all its forms) is an early sign of trouble to come.

The U.S. isn’t much better off. While we are a nation of immigrants; we too are too tolerant of those who refuse to blend in to our society. We don’t even require immigrants to follow the law when coming here.

The Western culture (in Europe and the United States), that has brought mankind practically every major innovation in thinking, invention, and governance, is in danger. The barbarians are at the gate and we fiddle away talking about how good it is to be “diverse”.

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I’ve worked with two guys named Mo (Mohammed), one born in Pakistan, the other in Iran. After coming to America, they left Islam behind, except for a couple of holidays. They both were quite open with me (I think, sensing I wouldn’t judge them), and admitted that they found the culture of their childhoods oppressive and irrational, and wanted little to do with it, but they didn’t want to feak out their parents back home and come out with some grand statement against Islam — so they just lived their lives, quietly, and stayed in the US. Their children are even less Islamized, and I know of two of their kids who go to churches with friends, which their parents support.

So, Muslims emigrating *can* work to the advantage of the West. Will it? I don’t know. I think a lot of it depends on how we treat them.

Sure, some will be nuts no matter what (especially those who do not marry or have careers), but I think the majority will adapt (and have careers and buy houses and put kids through college), and this will have a moderating effect on Islam, globally.

The Islamic radicals are correct, on that count — the West will lead Muslims away from living like violent, woman-hating, 7th century maruaders. (Yay.) Higher education in a secular setting almost always has a moderating effect, because it makes it harder to hold onto rigid ideas unsupported by the broader facts of life and history… not due to some liberal conspiracy — obviously, the liberals aren’t that organized. 🙂

But that doesn’t mean we should be idiots and act like everyone’s the same. We *should* keep a closer eye on folks who, statistically, are more likely to go radical and do stupid stuff (as we should with white supremacists and other nutjobs with violent tendencies). And, as long as they don’t do that crap, welcome them openly.

I’m glad to hear that you have had positive exposure to Muslims here in the U.S. I will say my exposure has been a mixed bag; usually to the extreme on both sides. I’ve worked with Muslims who have been some of the nicest, hard-working people anywhere; a credit to their people. Then I’ve worked with Muslims with a constant chip on thier shoulders; who made little effort to hide their disdain for our culture, (while enjoying it’s benefits).

I must admit I still come from the biased perspective; that it pisses me off that we (the West) are having to deal with a Muslim problem. We (the West) are spending billions of dollars and thousands of lives when we shouldn’t even be involved. The Muslim community at large should be rooting out and destroying these cells of nuts; while apologizing that we were ever drug into it. They should be offering to rebuild the World Trade Center with foreign Muslim dollars. They should be paying restitution to the families that lost loved ones on 911. They should be doing something… anything…

Instead all we get is BS from organizations like CAIR and radical clerics… an not a peep out of anyone else.

I disagree that moderate Muslims will have a moderating/calming effect on the overall Muslim community. If that were the case, we would have seen some evidense of that happening over the last nine years. I’ve seen nothing. I don’t know if the moderate Muslims are scared or if they agree with their radical cousins; but they have had NO affect for NINE years, and don’t intend to. Their silence is deafening! Forget action… you can’t even get words… you can’t even get the “moderates” to denounce this crap.

You want my respect? You want my acceptance? Get your crap in order! Demand sanity! Start with a Million Moderate Muslim March on Meca! Hell, right now, I’d settle for 1000, 100 or 10!

Hell, you may be right. I just remembered one Muslim asshole I worked with; I just chose not to hang around him, so he didn’t make an impression.

I’m not sure what the actions are of moderate/liberal Muslims. Maybe they just feel like completely different people. I know I didn’t feel the need to defent Christianity every time some nut shot a doc who performed abortions. But yes, I agree, whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to be enough. Even the Dutch are getting sick of their sh*t, and they put up with damn near anything.

Ultimately, though, I don’t think Islam is compatible with the modern world. It’s too bad; there’s more veneration of Mary in the Koran than in the New Testament. There is good stuff there. But there’s so very, very much intolerant crap… even with my flexible outlook, I don’t see how it can work with any non-Muslims, without a major revision — to the point where it’d really be a different religion.

People talk about Judaism or Christianity being intolerant, but we don’t kill outsiders, or force them to convert (at least not in the modern era), or treat non-believers as second-class citizens, with different laws and remedies.

I do need to point out one country that, I feel, is handling it’s Muslim extremist problem the right way: the Philippines. It’s part of their constitution that foreigners cannot serve on armed missions within the country, so they have American advisors, and use Filipino-only strike teams. In the past few years, they’ve killed about 30 radicals, and truly won the “hearts and minds,” because they’re the same people. I think that’s the only way it can work. American forces being in any Middle Eastern country, killing Muslims, is just free advertising for Al Qaeda. We need to advise, and not participate.